Job Description:

Position: Asst. Manager - NPD

Location: Kheda - Ahmedabad

Experience: 7 - 8 Years

Industries: Cosmetics

Responsibilities:
End to end project management, from product brief all the way through until first production run –for a range of the groups perfume and personal care brands.
Hold ultimate responsibility in delivering products, from NPD brief, through till first production run.
Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress.
Conceptualize brief to Product realization.
Translating sales team requirements into formal NPD briefs.
Develop current products and the cost re-engineering of existing products.
Ensuring that our products are fully compliant to all the required specifications of major retailers/regions.
Benchmarking against key competitors within major retailers.
Responsible for coordinating with various external vendors, to ensure delivery of their part of projects on time.
Maintaining project status sheets & doing whatever is needed to expedite various parts of the project.




Hold internal departments responsible for adhering to timelines of the various gate stages of projects.
Work to develop a rigorous system and process flow for the NPD process.
Work with and develop processes for the design & artwork team, to integrate them better into the product development process.
Carrying out competitor and market research.
Helping to decide on USP’s, hero ingredients & marketing claims for products.
Oversee product development and monitor market trends that may indicate the need for current products and services.
Co-ordinating with external customers, to give updates on the technical aspects of the project.
To work closely with the procurement team to identify new sources of supply of product needs and sources new raw materials and passes information on new ideas to NPD Department.
Creation of samples for customers.
Gather comments, suggestions and feedback that can become the ideas for current produc

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